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Microcanonical thermodynamics : phase transitions in "small" systems /
Boltzmann's formula S = In[W (E)] defines the microcanonical ensemble. The usual textbooks on statistical mechanics start with the microensemble but rather quickly switch to the canonical ensemble introduced by Gibbs. This has the main advantage of easier analytical calculations, but there is a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Singapore ; New Jersey :
World Scientific,
©2001.
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| Colección: | World Scientific lecture notes in physics ;
v. 66. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Boltzmann's formula S = In[W (E)] defines the microcanonical ensemble. The usual textbooks on statistical mechanics start with the microensemble but rather quickly switch to the canonical ensemble introduced by Gibbs. This has the main advantage of easier analytical calculations, but there is a price to pay - for example, phase transitions can only be defined in the thermodynamic limit of infinite system size. The question how phase transitions show up from systems with, say, 100 particles with an increasing number towards the bulk can only be answered when one finds a way to define and clas. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xv, 269 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-263) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789812798916 9812798919 |